Sellers' margins are squeezed

AUTHOR(S)

Agarwal, Anu

PUB. DATE

March 2007

SOURCE

ICIS Chemical Business;3/5/2007, Vol. 2 Issue 56, p32

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article reports that the rising prices of palm oil are exerting an upward pressure on biodiesel manufacturing costs in Asia. The author said palm oil values are reaching the 600 U.S. dollar per ton free on board Malaysia levels. The increases resulted from higher crude palm oil prices and rising soya values in the U.S.

Palm Biodiesel, which can be produced from transesterification palm oil with methanol, is an alternative fuel for diesel engines. It can be mixed with diesel fuels and used in diesel engines with no or slight modification. Therefore, in this study, commercially available diesel fuel was blended...

Reports on the government's plan to build three palm oil biodiesel plants in Malaysia. Aim to help reduce the country's dependence on petroleum; Capacity of each plant per year; Budget for the construction of the plants.

The article reports on the decline in the prices of palm kernel oil in June 2014, with European Union (EU) price dropping 10 percent month on month due to strong supply from major producing countries while British price declined because of the warm weather.

Oil-laden spent bleaching clay (SBC) is currently under-utilized by dumping it in landfills without any attempt to recover the oil. Therefore, effort has been made to extract the waste oil using different solvents (methanol, ethanol, petroleum ether, and hexane), and utilize the oil in...

Nano MgO has been synthesized by hydration and dehydration method by modifies the commercial MgO. The prepared MgO had been investigated as a heterogeneous base catalyst for transesterification process for biodiesel production using palm oil. TGA, FT-IR and XRD results obtained from this study...